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So they're requiring vaccination in "many indoor settings", which just includes restaurants, movie theaters and gyms... Those are luxuries. What are people up
by Hippocrates 5y ago
So they're requiring vaccination in "many indoor settings", which just includes restaurants, movie theaters and gyms... Those are luxuries.
What are people up in arms about then? Its like another take on the mask mandate outrage, where people conflated selfishness with freedom, except this time you can still do everything you need to while being non-compliant.
- wyager 5y agoThe government does not have carte-blanche authority to strip people of any liberty that isn’t strictly necessary for survival. The government stripping life of all its “luxuries” just looks like being in prison (except at least prisoners are allowed to go to the gym).
- Hippocrates 5y agoSounds very dystopian when you describe it outside the context of a life-saving measure. I don't like the idea of a "government stripping life of all its luxuries" either. ...but are you sure they don't have that authority? There have been plenty of times I've had luxuries stripped in the last two years. What about enjoyable, luxurious substances? International travel to exciting places? Driving around without a seatbelt?
- wyager 5y agoIt sounds dystopian because it is.
- Hippocrates 5y agoYes, your imaginary scenario is dystopian. There is nothing dystopian about not being allowed to eat a burger in a crowded room to help slow the spread of a deadly disease. You assert the government has no right to enforce that, and I'm calling you wrong.